Day 1

12:30pm - Buffet lunch and welcome; 1:30pm start

• Introductory briefing (20 mins)

• Context: The quality of published systematic reviews (20 mins)

• First Plenary: What are the challenges in publishing high-quality SRs? (30 mins) 

3pm - Coffee break (20 minutes)

• Talk + Q&A on Theme 1 - Standards and Guidance (30 mins)

• Breakout (1 hour)

• Plenary (30 mins)

6pm - Wrap-up

7pm - Dinner: hot buffet served at venue

Day 2

8am - Breakfast, provided by venue; 8:45am start

• Talk + Q&A on Theme 2 - Preventing Mistakes, by David Mellor (Center for Open Science)

• Breakout, plenary

11 am - Coffee break (20 minutes)

• Talks + Q&A on Theme 3 - Optimising Workflows, by Peter Tugwell (Journal of Clinical Epidemiology) on editorial competencies, and Jason Roberts (Origin Editorial) on editorial workflows. 

12:30pm - Lunch (1 hour)

• Breakout and plenary session for Theme 3

3pm - Coffee Break (20 minutes)

• Talk + Q&A on Theme 4 - Measuring the Effectiveness of Editorial Interventions, by Larissa Shamseer (University of Ottawa)

• Breakout, plenary

5:30pm - Wrap-up 

6.30pm - Dinner at Page Road Grill (EBTC providing taxis)

Day 3

8am - Breakfast, 8:45am start

• Recap: lay out the ideas which have been proposed for assuring the quality of SRs in environmental health and toxicology, introduce how the plenary discussion will run (15 minutes)

• Divide into two breakout groups to discuss and agree on items for the action plan, items for longer-term strategic planning, and follow up process (1.5 hours)

• Presentation back to full group of results of discussion (15 minutes)

11am - Coffee break 

• Full plenary discussion of items in the action plan, for final consensus (1.5 hours)

1pm - Lunch, depart